A- Pre-writing exercise: Visualizing continuities and ruptures 1) Summarize the characteristics of live-in maids work according to what we have seen in the film. (film: Roma 2018) 2) Open BB and the PPT from last week and set the presentation in Slide Show mode. 3) Go through the images and notice how maids and domestic workers are portrayed. 4) What aspects of domestic workers and their work do you notice? 5) Do you see coincidences and differences across them? 6) Now, think what aspects of domestic work and the life of live-in maids and domestic workers might have changed in the historical line. What are the characteristics of Cleo’s work and how could she feel? B- Preparing your writing: The importance of questions
1. This is an informal first person narration 2. What are the characteristics of an informal discourse? 3. Place yourself in Cleo’s or any of the paintings/photographs’ maids 4. Create at least five ”writing questions” that you will use in your Written Assignment # 1. Writing questions: •Relate to our general topic and unchain a ”rain of questions” •Express honestly our intellectual curiosity •Provide us with ideas to communicate them through writing •Emerge from spontaneous thought, intuition and imagination •Depart from the ”Now” How would you respond to these questions by writing in first person a description about your job as a live-in maid. Think how your text connects with our own interests as readers-writers working on this topic
C- Writing: “The Job According Cleo” Write a first person report about the characteristics of working as a live-in maid from the perspective of a maid. It can be Cleo or any maid represented in the paintings from the PPT. Extensión: 2 pages Format: Times New Roman 12, double space This is the link to the PPT:https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qIOwm7lYx1e0o_meFIG7YJuXKHx7Dmrm/view?usp=sharing Add your name and written assignment’s title
